Advantages of the Null Job?

[B. Banerjee]

Hi,

Often, in this and other newsgroups, I have seen references to the null
job.  This is usually something useful such as counting to infinity or
figuring PI to the millionth digit etc.  It is usually run at the
lowest possible priority.

Now, my question is - Are there any performance benefits to having the
null job running, or is it just there to soak up the CPU idle cycles?
I don't have one running on this system, but if there are tangible
benefits, I'd certainly run one.

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